Biathlon World Championships 2007 – Men's pursuit

Event: 12.5 km Pursuit Men

Date: February 4, 2007

Place: Italy Antholz, Italy

Start Time: 11:15 CET

End Time: 11:55 CET

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Ole Einar Bjørndalen won his second gold medal in as many days, started in front, but Michal Šlesingr caught up with his four-second deficit before the first shooting, and Šlesingr completed a faultless shoot to take a 15-second lead. Deryzemlya and Björn Ferry missed, so no one else were within fifty seconds of the lead, with a group of three including Tomasz Sikora, Mattias Nilsson and Lars Berger (who advanced 13 places from his starting position through the fastest skiing).

Bjørndalen cut the deficit to Šlesingr by half during the second loop, but Šlesingr held onto his lead thanks to a faultless shoot. Berger and Sikora entered the range fighting for third place, with Emil Hegle Svendsen and Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. close behind, and Sikora, Svendsen and Kruglov (after a slow shooting) filled all their targets to leave within a few seconds of each other.

Bjørndalen and Šlesingr came in together to the first standing shooting, about half a minute ahead of the competitors. The leaders missed a few shots, with Bjørndalen getting one penalty loop and Šlesingr two, and Šlesingr thus lost half a minute and was just ahead of Sikora, who also missed once. Svendsen missed twice and was fourth, over a minute behind, and heading a group also consisting of Lars Berger, Vincent Defrasne and Raphaël Poirée.

Bjørndalen's half-a-minute lead grew to 45 seconds by the time he arrived at the shooting range for the final shoot. With a perfect shooting, he had a massive lead into the final 2.5-kilometre loop, and the fight was for the silver medal. Sikora missed twice, while Šlesingr lost many seconds in shooting speed and also missed a target. In the group behind, Berger had taken a lead before the shooting, but missed three shots, and Svendsen and Poirée also missed to leave Defrasne with a lead of 13 seconds on Šlesingr, but over a minute up to Bjørndalen. Maxim Tchoudov, who had not been better than 14th at any stage, now shot a full house and left the range in a group with Svendsen, Poirée and Sikora.

There were no errors for Bjørndalen, who could ski the final loop as a lap of honour and still win by a minute, while Tchoudov distanced all his competitors in the chase for medals. Svendsen and Poirée were dropped, he caught and left Šlesingr, before pipping Olympic gold medallist Defrasne to the line and taking silver.

Results

* P - Prone, S - Standing, T - Total penalties

Rank Athlete Nation Start behind P1 P2 S1 S2 T Result
1st, gold medalist(s) Ole Einar Bjørndalen Norway NOR 0:00 1 0 1 0 2 32:21.2
2nd, silver medalist(s) Maxim Tchoudov Russia RUS 1:03 1 0 2 0 3 +1:09.8
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Vincent Defrasne France FRA 1:11 0 0 1 0 1 +1:09.9
4 Michal Šlesingr Czech Republic CZE 0:05 0 0 2 1 3 +1:14.7
5 Emil Hegle Svendsen Norway NOR 0:48 0 0 2 1 3 +1:17.2
6 Raphaël Poirée France FRA 0:50 1 0 1 1 3 +1:18.8
7 Tomasz Sikora Poland POL 0:39 0 0 1 2 3 +1:19.4
8 Dmitri Yaroshenko Russia RUS 1:38 1 0 0 0 1 +1:27.5
9 Ivan Tcherezov Russia RUS 1:35 0 0 1 0 1 +1:36.1
10 Michael Roesch Germany GER 1:18 0 0 1 1 2 +1:44.3
11 Lars Berger Norway NOR 1:04 0 2 1 3 6 +1:45.8
12 Michael Greis Germany GER 1:19 1 0 2 1 4 +1:46.5
13 Andreas Birnbacher Germany GER 1:13 1 0 1 1 3 +1:49.4
14 Alexander Wolf Germany GER 1:10 0 0 2 1 3 +1:53.2
15 Christoph Sumann Austria AUT 1:43 1 0 0 1 2 +1:59.5
16 Nikolay Kruglov, Jr. Russia RUS 0:59 0 0 3 1 4 +2:16.6
17 Sven Fischer Germany GER 2:22 0 0 0 0 0 +2:18.7
18 Jay Hakkinen United States United States 2:11 0 0 1 0 1 +2:24.1
19 Mattias Jr. Nilsson Sweden SWE 0:40 0 1 1 2 4 +2:27.6
20 Halvard Hanevold Norway NOR 1:35 1 1 0 0 2 +2:31.1
21 Friedrich Pinter Austria AUT 1:39 0 0 2 0 2 +2:35.1
22 Björn Ferry Sweden SWE 0:34 1 0 2 2 5 +2:46.3
23 Carl Johan Bergman Sweden SWE 1:48 1 1 0 1 3 +2:51.0
24 Matthias Simmen Switzerland SUI 0:57 1 1 2 2 6 +2:51.0
25 Simon Fourcade France FRA 2:08 1 0 1 1 3 +3:02.4
26 Andriy Deryzemlya Ukraine UKR 0:26 1 1 0 3 5 +3:10.0
27 Wilfried Pallhuber Italy ITA 1:35 0 0 1 2 3 +3:14.4
28 Rene Laurent Vuillermoz Italy ITA 0:54 1 0 3 2 6 +3:25.5
29 Alexei Korobeynikov Ukraine UKR 2:02 0 1 2 0 3 +3:30.4
30 Magnús Jónsson Sweden SWE 1:48 1 0 1 1 3 +3:34.3
31 Alexei Aidarov Ukraine UKR 1:40 0 1 1 1 3 +3:44.8
32 Tim Burke United States United States 1:58 0 1 2 2 5 +3:45.3
33 Jaroslav Soukup Czech Republic CZE 1:45 1 1 2 1 5 +3:49.2
34 Janez Maric Slovenia SLO 1:36 2 1 2 1 6 +3:49.3
35 Daniel Mesotitsch Austria AUT 1:38 2 1 3 0 6 +4:16.5
36 Rustam Valiullin Belarus BLR 2:17 1 0 1 1 3 +4:32.9
37 Roland Lessing Estonia EST 2:21 2 0 2 0 4 +4:34.1
38 Olexander Bilanenko Ukraine UKR 1:30 2 2 1 1 6 +4:34.4
39 Sergey Novikov Belarus BLR 2:11 0 1 2 1 4 +4:38.6
40 Roman Dostál Czech Republic CZE 2:49 0 1 1 1 3 +4:54.8
41 Ludwig Gredler Austria AUT 2:24 1 2 1 1 5 +4:55.7
42 Jouni Kinnunen Finland FIN 2:49 0 0 1 0 1 +5:23.3
43 Ferreol Cannard France FRA 3:23 0 0 0 1 1 +5:34.7
44 Christian De Lorenzi Italy ITA 0:57 2 2 3 0 7 +5:40.2
45 Klemen Bauer Slovenia SLO 1:44 0 1 4 2 7 +5:43.3
46 Jeremy Teela United States United States 2:32 2 0 3 2 7 +5:44.0
47 Gregor Brvar Slovenia SLO 3:08 1 0 1 1 3 +5:52.4
48 Timo Antila Finland FIN 2:57 2 2 0 0 4 +5:57.7
49 Ondřej Moravec Czech Republic CZE 3:17 1 1 2 1 5 +6:01.1
50 Lowell Bailey United States United States 2:45 2 0 3 1 6 +6:04.2
51 Vasja Rupnik Slovenia SLO 2:24 0 1 3 3 7 +6:24.9
52 Simon Hallenbarter Switzerland SUI 2:58 1 2 1 1 5 +6:41.8
53 Jarkko Kauppinen Finland FIN 3:19 1 0 1 1 3 +6:48.6
54 Alexandr Syman Belarus BLR 3:20 2 2 1 2 7 +7:38.2
55 Jaime Robb Canada CAN 3:05 2 0 3 2 7 +7:40.0

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